Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Ghost & Hamlet

The speech pattern of Hamlet and the Ghost have many similarities and both highlight each other. In terms of Hamlet, his speech seems to be completely controlled by his passionate emotions of hate, rage, love, fear, anger, sadness, and so on. His emotions seem to control him more than he can control them and he comes off as a kind of hot-blooded youth. Also, as a side note, for this comparison i'm going to have to ignore Hamlet's other-side - intelligent and calm in his soliloquies for the sake of my argument. However, i grant and acknowledge this side of Hamlet. Now continuing on, the Ghost (which is Hamlet's dead father) displays both the passion and lack of control Hamlet has in his speech too. His father show a certain amount of rage and revenge in his voice as he demands : "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." Indeed, it seems that his father is just as emotionally invested as Hamlet is- and the uncertainty and shakiness of his father mirrors that of Hamlet's speech patterns. Emotion and memory seem to cloud both Hamlet and his fathers speech patterns and their similarities in this both highlight and even more intensify this. Also, although Hamlet is well educated and a sweet boy - his want for revenge and rage seem to take over more and he almost loses himself in this and meeting with the Ghost only worsen these feelings as both their rages feed off of each other.

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